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Last night, Zappos and 6PM.com started notifying customers that their websites had been hacked and that sensitive customer data had been taken. While news is still coming in, it seems like names, Emails, Addresses, last four digits of credit card numbers and “cryptographically scrambled” versions of passwords were taken. In response to this Zappos & 6PM.com have reset all user passwords, you if you are a customer of wither website, you should have some Emails waiting for you in your inbox. Zappos sent this to customers:

We are writing to let you know that there may have been illegal and unauthorized access to some of your customer account information on Zappos.com, including one or more of the following: your name, e-mail address, billing and shipping addresses, phone number, the last four digits of your credit card number (the standard information you find on receipts), and/or your cryptographically scrambled password (but not your actual password).

For more information of to contact customer support, please visit Zappos.com or 6PM.com for more information and by no means, responde to any email asking you for information regarding wither account.

Source: TechCrunch

There is no privacy with smart-phones - regardless of brand or OEM. Understand this!

Source: Allthingsd.com

I am not trying to startle but rather inform. It seems that the technology applied in medical devices such as pace makers and automatic drug releasing implants for human use, are threatened by computer viruses.

The vulnerability of human medical implant devices are caused by a few factors. Typically, these devices don’t have inter-accessibility to the wider realm of the web and the platforms that we are all networked on. But things seem to be changing thanks to devices, R&D, and what may be direct or indirect marketing by some large companies. The fantastic abilities of devices such as the iPhone and software for it are merging these two arenas of main stream technology and medicine. This hazard has been flagged by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJOM, 2010; 362:1164 – 1166) Dr. William Maisel and Tadayoshi Kohno write; “that the complex and sophisticated features of medical devices have created a susceptibility to security breaches that could compromise the performance of such devices and the safety and privacy of patients.” The use of the iPad and its application in the medical management software realm has spread as if it were destined to be in the hands of doctors all along. Simply sated – threats are a concern.

How would you like the title: Director of Global Security? Former NSA analyst David Rice has joined the boys at 1 Infinite Loop and apparently the globe is his playground. As Apple’s mobile dominance expands, there is a growing need to lock down those devices and apparently David Rice is the man to do this. If Mr. Rice’s book (Geekonomics) is anything to go by, Apple will be putting the majority of this security responsibility on App Devs. On a die note, that massive data center in NC should need some security as well – David, you got your hands full. NEXT!

Source: 9 to 5 Mac